[THIN] Re: Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)

Or you can go for Windows Storage Server.   A lot of the NAS/SAN devices 
on the market are really just rebranded WSS. 

Erik- Can you please be more specific on your definition of 
high-availability and performance.  The HA term can lead you down a 
treacherous path of vendor obsufication.  Example, my main file server is 
clustered.  I can (and have) say that it has HA features.  But what about 
the back-end storage.  Does it have redundant power, controllers, cabling 
to the host, etc?  If the answer is no, you don't have a true HA system.  
What about performance?  You can have hugely fat pipes and run slow 
spindles setup incorrectly.  Do you have an overall throughput in mind 
that can be tested via some tool suchas IOmeter?

adam




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I would recommend taking a look at using Windows servers with Datacore SAN
Melody software. Most lower end SAN/NAS devices are just some kind of
embedded linux or XP system anyway. If you go this way you can use off the
shelf servers and disks and get all the same features as much more 
expensive
SAN including fiber channel support, iSCSI, synchronous mirroring across
systems, etc.

 
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Of Erik Blom
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:25 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Alternative fileservers (EMC Celerra)

Hi,
 
We are currently evaluating a possible migration from our Windows 2003
fileserver towards another fileserving system. Our main concerns are
security, high-availability and performance. We talked to EMC about this 
and
they mentioned migrating towards a Celerra system.
 
Does anyone of you has any experience - good or bad - with such a system?

Regards,

Erik


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